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A Dangerous Climate Harms Healthy Children. What About Kids With Cancer?
Kids who have had cancer seem to be more vulnerable to the health impacts of global warming. A new scientific article sheds light on the specific climate vulnerability of these kids and charts a path to support them.
10 Essential Ways the Federal Emergency Management Agency Protects Our Families and Communities
Though FEMA’s work is undeniably essential, it is currently threatened by deeply troubling staff and funding cuts. Here are 10 ways FEMA keeps our families safe every day—and why their work must be defended so it can continue to protect us all.
March Supermom of the Month: Amy Dishion, Oregon
March Supermom of the Month, Amy Dishion, has spent much of the last year recounting the story of her husband’s tragic death from heat stroke for audiences across the country. She shares how she remains motivated to keep opening up in service to her mission to care for her daughter and the planet.
Uprooted: How Back-to-Back Hurricanes Displaced One Family From Nicaragua to the U.S.
In November 2020, during the middle of a very active storm season, two Category 4 hurricanes slammed into Central America within two weeks. Read how one family lost their home, forcing them to make the difficult decision to try to go to the U.S.
10 Essential Ways the National Weather Service and NOAA Protect Our Families
The National Weather Service and its parent agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, play a vital role in keeping communities safe from severe weather and other environmental threats.
Uprooted: How One Family Learned There Is No Such Thing as a Climate Haven
When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in August 2005, this family was forced to evacuate to Houston—at 2 AM. Nearly two decades later, they relived the nightmare when Hurricane Helene hit their new hometown in Western North Carolina.
Unchecked Global Warming Would Ruin New York. EPA Chief and Would-Be Governor Lee Zeldin Does Not Care.
Lee Zeldin, Trump’s EPA Administrator, who aspires to be governor of New York, is doing everything he can in his new job to speed up global warming, which will devastate the state that he—and I—were born and raised in.
Mental Health and Climate Change: When the Earth Moves—5 Months After Hurricane Helene
Brita Nordgren and her family are still processing what happened to their community during Hurricane Helene, the deadliest storm to hit the U.S. since Katrina. Even months later, emotions about the storm come in waves.
Imperiling Children’s Health: The Trump Administration’s Attacks on the Endangerment Finding
Revoking the Endangerment Finding would put so much at risk: our families’ physical and mental health, humans’ ability to thrive on this planet, the stability of our societies. Read what you need to know about this vital protection.
Uprooted: How Extreme Heat and Disease Displaced One Family From Cameroon to the U.S.
Because climate change and migration are big, complicated global issues, the relationship between the two is complex. This story of how one family was forced to flee Cameroon to escape extreme heat, disease, and civil war provides some context and nuance missing from many of today’s conversations about immigration.
EcoMadres Investigates Wildfires’ Unjust Impacts on Latino Communities
EcoMadres, Moms’ Latino engagement program, recently hosted a critical conversation exploring the impact of last month’s Los Angeles wildfires on underserved communities and strategies to strengthen their resilience for the next disaster.